I Don't Agree to the Terms
Chapter 61: Silent Death

Chapter 61: Chapter 61: Silent Death

"Compared to humans, the superpower within this chameleon is far too unstable, it could lead to its own collapse at any moment."

Gu Shanhai discovered this flaw during the dissection. This instability wasn’t the kind that could trigger an evolution of its ability, but rather a loss of control that would turn it into a pile of rotten flesh.

This meant that it wasn’t of much value to Gu Shanhai; he didn’t want his own powers to become an unstable bomb.

"Is it because of an excess of radiation?" Gu Shanhai pondered, then proceeded to freeze the chameleon’s body for further experimentation later.

Times had changed since his former life, and many things could no longer serve as references.

After leaving the portable laboratory, Gu Shanhai realized that chaos had already broken out outside. The mass death of flora and fauna had just occurred, with the survivors awakening to their superpowers, which now also started to affect humans.

This puzzled Gu Shanhai; why were humans the last to be affected? It wasn’t possible that humans were the protagonists, right?

Or was it that the superpower radiation targeted something specific to humans, something with strong defensive power, which allowed them to resist for so long?

"If it’s something... could it be intelligence?" Gu Shanhai felt the radiation that was blocked outside the Magic Domain. It swept across the world incessantly, just like air.

Lucky for Gu Shanhai, he had the Magic Domain and Purifying Grass, otherwise, he would have had to flee already.

"The concentration of superpower radiation must have tripled at least. I was in the portable lab for five hours, not five days, right?"

"Well, that confirms my earlier speculation."

Gu Shanhai had predicted that something bad might happen in the next couple of days; it had come quicker than he had thought.

"If the superpowers in the creatures were unstable, could the ones in humans be the same?"

In his previous life, these changes in superpowers never occurred; now, it was different.

Even the possibility of creating a superpower awakening potion was uncertain; there wasn’t enough time. In his former life, there were three months to work with, but now it had barely been over a month—how could it be successful?

He even worried that the future god among men might fail to awaken and die.

Without the superpower awakening potion, it wasn’t just like walking through the Gates of Hell; it was like defecating on King Yan’s head, asking him for paper, and then fighting your way through the Ten Yamas on the way back to the Netherworld.

He turned on the TV, hoping to catch up on the latest news, but it was just static, nothing more.

"Damn, don’t tell me everyone’s dead." Gu Shanhai’s face fell; it had really turned into that bizarre end-of-the-world survival script.

Everything happened too suddenly; just five hours ago, everything was normal with community members reminding to be cautious, now all was eerily silent.

"Better go outside and take a look. It’s best to catch a superhuman early on." Gu Shanhai felt things were looking rather grim.

He had no confidence that there would be a double-digit number of living people in the entire city.

"But if anyone would survive, it should be He Lingyun, right?"

Gu Shanhai narrowed his eyes. Contacting him previously might not have been suitable, but now it should be.

With such great changes, only he could likely resolve it, perhaps even reversing time. But first, he had to survive.

He quickly packed and left his rental apartment, carrying a flowerpot with him.

On the streets was a macabre mix of flesh and clothing, belonging to those whose genes had collapsed from awakening to their powers.

He didn’t bother collecting these samples. If anything similar had been successful, he should have completed his task and left by now.

He also considered his repeated failures. It wasn’t just due to having multiple superpowers; the radiation this time around was far more terrifying than in his former life. Back then, the radiation was contained by the superpower core and the death rate wasn’t so appalling.

He began to suspect that the entire planet had become a source of expanding superpower radiation; otherwise, how could it be so dreadful? After all, the amount was obvious.

"I’m starting to understand why the superpower core was sealed."

Such fearsome power must have been experienced at some point, and the surviving ancestors sealed the catastrophe.

Superpowers were never a blessing; they were a disaster.

But now, the disaster had reappeared, and it was uncertain when the entity that caused this disaster would make its entrance to harvest.

Gu Shanhai didn’t really believe that such a calamity was inherent to the world; otherwise, it wouldn’t be so terrifying. With lengthy evolution, one would either perish or adapt. It’s unlikely for the current situation to occur, so it’s more probable that it was something cast by some other being.

In his former life, the disaster had likely been dealt with by He Lingyun, the god among men; he really was too powerful to defy.

"I remember He Lingyun’s home was at..." Gu Shanhai accessed the information in his memory. After becoming the god among men, even He Lingyun’s superpowers were exposed, let alone his original address. The process and reasons why he became such were not to be investigated—likely erased by him.

This remained one of the unsolved mysteries of The First Epoch. His abilities were indeed too inscrutable.

It wasn’t to say that players didn’t have items or skills capable of forcibly investigating, but such attempts weren’t worth it for the players. Such items were precious, so why waste them on something meaningless? And if it were abilities or talents, they could be counteracted, incurring a permanent negative DEBUFF or passive skill of a negative type, which would be a big loss.

By the time players like Gu Shanhai became stronger, these more powerful players no longer cared about the trivial Eight Diagrams. They had higher-level worlds to conquer and had long forgotten this initial, minor world.

By then, everyone’s system was complete, and there was no need to bother with such thankless tasks.

As he was contemplating, Gu Shanhai turned a corner and saw a faint glow emanating from an alleyway, invigorating his spirit.

"This feeling..."

Gu Shanhai sensed an aura that didn’t belong to this world; he knew what this meant—a special being known as the Plane Merchant.

’Why would a Plane Merchant appear in this world at a time like this, when they should be visiting the bigger worlds?’ Gu Shanhai was puzzled, yet he turned into the alley to see if he could buy something. After all, a Plane Merchant sold everything.